New Additions to the Map for November
Ten places, from a pierced cave bear bone in Slovenia to the ashes kept at a temple in Tokyo.
Take a look at the 10 places we've added to the Strange Route map so far in November. There are more to come, but here's the list for now.
Ancient Mystery
Conspiracy
- Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum
- Museo per la Memoria di Ustica (Itavia Flight 870)
- Skull and Bones Tomb
Cryptid
Disappearance
- Jim Thompson House and the Disappearance of Jim Thompson
- Renkoji Temple and the Ashes of Subhas Chandra Bose
Haunted
Lost Treasure
Guides
Our Krampus guide, A Hundred Passen and No Ticket, is out now.
Q&A
- November 8: Simon Bourne. We'll talk about mudlarking on the Thames, the range of objects he finds, and the stories they reveal about London. You may know him from his channel, SI Finds.
- November 22: Dr. Anthony Clarke. We'll cover the geological evidence linking Stonehenge's Altar Stone to northeastern Scotland, and the questions that remain about its source and how it reached Stonehenge.
- November 29: Erling P. Strand. We'll discuss his firsthand sightings of the Hessdalen lights, how witness accounts compare with camera and instrument records, what remains uncertain, and what visitors can record to help researchers.
As always, let us know if you have suggestions for us. We read the comments on all of our TikTok posts. If you set up an account on the site, we can credit you as the person who suggested a new location. Thanks for your continued support.
Featured Places
Divje Babe I Cave and the Neanderthal Flute
Littoral · SloveniaIn 1995, a team led by Ivan Turk dug the thigh bone of a cave bear cub, pierced with holes, out of a layer of Neanderthal tools beside a hearth. Whether Neanderthals drilled those holes or carnivores gnawed them has been argued in print since 1998 and is not settled.
Nebra Sky Disc
Saxony-Anhalt · GermanyTwo men with metal detectors dug the Nebra Sky Disc out of the Mittelberg in 1999, and Swiss police recovered it from a hotel sting in Basel on February 23, 2002. UNESCO listed it in 2013. In 2020, Rupert Gebhard and Rüdiger Krause argued that it is Iron Age, about 1,000 years younger than the 1600 BC burial date the Halle museum gives, and a team that included state archaeologist Harald Meller published a rebuttal the same year.
Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum
Texas · United StatesThe Warren Commission found in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that President Kennedy was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy. Records releases ran from 2017 through January 2026, and the National Archives states no total for what is still withheld.
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica (Itavia Flight 870)
Emilia-Romagna · ItalyOn June 27, 1980, an Itavia DC-9 carrying 81 people fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. In 2013, Italy's civil Court of Cassation held the missile thesis amply reasoned, while the criminal courts acquitted the generals tried for concealment and no trial for the crash itself has produced a conviction. On October 2, 2026, a judge sent the inquiry back to prosecutors after France offered documents.
Skull and Bones Tomb
Connecticut · United StatesA letter from 1918, found in a Yale library and published in 2006, says the skull of "the worthy Geronimo the Terrible" is safe inside the Tomb of the Skull and Bones society. The writer was not at Fort Sill, a federal suit by Geronimo's descendants was dismissed in 2010, and the court did not decide whether the society holds any remains.
Storsjöodjuret
Jämtland · SwedenOn January 22, 1986, the Jämtland county board banned killing, harming, or capturing a lake monster in Storsjön. An environmental court declined to apply the order in 2003, and in 2005 the Parliamentary Ombudsman said it had no legal effect.
Jim Thompson House and the Disappearance of Jim Thompson
Bangkok · ThailandOn March 26, 1967, Jim Thompson, the American who helped revive the Thai silk trade, left a bungalow in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands for an afternoon walk and was never found. A Thai court declared him dead in 1974. A 2017 documentary says the Communist Party of Malaya killed him, on accounts that came secondhand. The teak house he assembled in Bangkok is now a museum.
Renkoji Temple and the Ashes of Subhas Chandra Bose
Tokyo · JapanThe Mukherjee Commission's report, tabled in the Indian Parliament on May 17, 2006, concluded that the ashes kept at Renkoji are not those of Subhas Chandra Bose. The government tabled an action taken report the same day saying it did not agree. A 1956 committee, by majority, and a 1970 commission had concluded that Bose died of injuries from a plane crash at Taipei in August 1945.
Bell Witch Cave
Tennessee · United StatesMartin V. Ingram's 1894 book, the first full account of the Bell family haunting in Robertson County, Tennessee, came 74 years after the events it describes. It records a voice, beatings, and a vial found beside John Bell before he died on December 20, 1820. Goodspeed's 1886 county history gives the witch one paragraph and mentions neither the vial nor Andrew Jackson.
The Beeswax Wreck
Oregon · United StatesResearchers tie the beeswax washing up on the Oregon coast to the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Manila galleon that sailed on July 1, 1693, and was never seen again. The identification is probable, not proven, and the hull has not been found.
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